Aloe is my new best friend. So is Shea butter, cocoa butter, and mango butter.
I just came back from Tahoe Donner. It was rather exciting, ups and downs. Downs being mostly that even SPF 45 can’t save my skin from the wrath of high-altitude sun.
Other ups and downs existed but I think they are for me and 2 other people to digest. Other than that…
In the pool
Pathway to nature
For me, summer has just started and it feels weird that it’s already well into July. I feel like I have so much to do and so little time to do it in. It would help if I didn’t have to ask for my parent’s permission everywhere I went. While post senior year summer is the time to realize the gratitude felt toward parents for most people, it is not for me. Most likely I realized that my parents are a necessary evil. They raised me (not too poorly I suppose), fed me, clothed me, and provided me with a general amount of money and comfort but they never gave me reassurance, confidence in my own actions and achievements. I think I could blame them for me being rather insecure but I feel like I’d just find another scapegoat while, in fact, everything is my own fault. This is definitely a “the grass is greener on the other side” type of problem and I do not know why I’m taking time to vent about it. All I know is that I better pick up the slack, and fast because if I do not have pre-built bridges I better start collecting the supplies for them now.
1:11 AM –> time to sleep.
What starts as a rather happy-thought provoked entry ends up being kind of depressing.
